And the driver is fine. Despite his Chevy Silverado being crushed to the size of a go-cart, Kaleb Whitby only received a few cuts and bruises in the I-84 accident near Baker City, Oregon.
More than 100 people were involved in the Saturday morning pileup on Interstate 84, about 33 miles east of Baker City. At least three separate collisions involving more than 20 vehicles, most of them semi-trucks, injured a dozen people.
Black ice conditions led to the multiple accidents. In Whitby’s collision, a tractor-trailer jackknifed across the highway. Whitby slid into the truck. Another tractor-trailer saw the first truck and slid sideways into it, crushing Whitby’s pickup. After ascertaining that Whitby was alive and not seriously injured, the second truck driver, Sergi Karplyuk, asked if he could take a picture. Emergency services freed Whitby a half-hour later. He and Karplyuk joined other bystanders to help other injured people. Whitby was checked out at a hospital later and came home with two band-aids on his finger. You can read the details, and see more pictures, at Oregon Live. -via reddit
(Image credit: Sergi Karplyuk)
Comments (5)
"Thank God that I'm still alive," Whitby said. "Now I've got to go figure out why."
With a pregnant wife and 2-year-old son, I'd say three people (and soon to be four) are VERY lucky that day.
First reaction is that it's funny - stupid kid. Second thought is questioning the circumstances. Maybe teach needs to grow up a little, too. I dunno.
But that thinking was quite common in the classes I taught in French schools.
Yeah, go figure.
whatever explaining that kid does, it won't work! He's toast.
"Not knowing the circumstances or even what level the questions were, it’s really hard to say."
We don't know if this student has had a long history of cheating, or if the teacher was just having a bad day. We don't know what the history or circumstances are. Some students are always trying to work the system and pull a fast one on the teacher. Then again, some teachers get into teaching because they like to feel superior to the students.
It's really hard to say.
It did bug me a bit that I almost received a zero when I wasn't cheating nor helping the cheater cheat but in the end it was simply too funny to be upset.
I hope the teacher knew for certain that it was a case of copying and not simply an error on the student's part.
The "Did you just guess this?" seems a little mean-spirited. Not knowing the circumstances or even what level the questions were, it's really hard to say.